Every family collection starts somewhere specific, and ours started in a room built for listening — a gramophone, a set of chairs no one quite matched to a style, and an uncle who could tell you the provenance of anything before he could tell you its price.

Twenty years of appraisal work taught us what most dealers never learn: that the story attached to an object is worth as much as the object itself, and that rescuing history means rescuing its stories too. L'Antiquaire is that instinct, formalised — a house built on the belief that Cairo's golden age never actually finished, and that someone should be keeping its receipts.